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Divna Valerieva Manolova
A graduate of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (BA in Philosophy) and Central European Un...
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Minakshi Menon
Minakshi Menon studied medieval Indian history at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University...
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Fenye in Local Gazetteers
First set up in the periods of Spring and Autumn and the Warring States (~770–221 BCE), Fenye is an astrological system that associated poli
Epistemology in the Making: A Cultural History of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum (Leopoldina)
In 1652, the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, the scientific academy today known as the Leopoldina, was founded in Schweinfurt with the aim of bringing to
Joseph Dennis
Joseph Dennis’s research focuses on the history of Chinese print culture, law, and society. He i...
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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Sci...
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Agriculture and the Making of Sciences (1100–1700)
The science of farming is a science full of benefits; it is the origin of all industries.” ʿ ilm-i filāḥat ʿ ilm-i pür menāfiʿ&nbs
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Previous Group Members, Justin Niermeier-Dohoney
Previous Visiting Fellows, Heba Mahmoud Saad AbdelNaby
Institutional Collaborators (2020–2027), Brill Academic Publishers
Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere, 14th to 20th Centuries
Category books (leishu 類書) are an important cornerstone for the compilation and delineation of knowledge in Imperial China. Since the third century, t
Local Gazetteers
Local gazetteers (difangzhi 地方志) have been major primary sources for the study of China’s local history. About 8,000 titles of local gazetteers dating
Changes in Chinese Traditional General Maps: Two Late-Qing General Maps in the MPIWG Map Collection
This project focusses on two general maps of the late Qing Empire, Daqing tianxia zhonghua gesheng Fuzhou xianting dili quantu 大清天下中華各省府州縣廳地
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